Jules OURY, known as MARCEL-LENOIR (1872 - 1931) Woman with her legs crossed. Pen and ink. Signed upper right. 20.5 x 24 cm at sight. Wear Note: Authentication by the Marcel-Lenoir Committee - Inclusion of this work in the Catalogue raisonné This work on paper by Marcel-Lenoir dates from the artist's third creative period, around 1925. In this caricature, Marcel-Lenoir immortalised Madeleine, his young wife and muse. While her face, with its circular outline, fleetingly sketched features, squared-off eyes and smiling lips, stares out at the painter and the viewer, the young wife and model poses on the ground, languid in an ingresque attitude. She is wearing a sort of apron, like a veil of modesty and restraint, revealing the nape of her neck, her shoulders, her torso as well as her arms and legs, sensual parts for the painter and also of an undulating, voluptuous and ingresque guild. The draughtsman captures his tender wife in caricature and synthesis. And with his pen and ink, in addition to the serpentine contours, he caresses his model with typical shading and hatching. And Madeleine seems happy and joyful to be posing for her illustrious artist, expressing no expression of weariness". textM-A Namy2025